Gymnastics Quotes

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

Gymnastics is so complex.

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.